AIDS in French Culture: Social Ills, Literary Cures

Author:   David Caron
Publisher:   University of Wisconsin Press
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9780299172909


Pages:   216
Publication Date:   30 October 2001
Format:   Hardback
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The deluge of metaphors triggered in 1981 in France by the first public reports of what would turn out to be the AIDS epidemic spread with far greater speed and efficiency than the virus itself. To understand why it took France so long to react to the AIDS crisis, this work analyzes the intersections of three discourses - the literary, the medical and the political - and traces the origin of French attitudes about AIDS to 19th century anxieties about nationhood, masculinity and sexuality.

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Author:   David Caron
Publisher:   University of Wisconsin Press
Imprint:   University of Wisconsin Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.418kg
ISBN:  

9780299172909


ISBN 10:   0299172902
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   30 October 2001
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Literary and cultural analysis come together here as Caron casts brilliant light on the disastrously inadequate public response to the AIDS pandemic in France. . . . He shows how literature has supplied the communitarian voice that would otherwise have been lacking. Ross Chambers, author of Facing It: AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author Literary and cultural analysis come together here as Caron casts brilliant light on the disastrously inadequate public response to the AIDS pandemic in France. . . . He shows how literature has supplied the communitarian voice that would otherwise have been lacking. Ross Chambers, author of Facing It: AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author


Literary and cultural analysis come together here as Caron casts brilliant light on the disastrously inadequate public response to the AIDS pandemic in France. . . . He shows how literature has supplied the communitarian voice that would otherwise have been lacking. --Ross Chambers, author of Facing It: AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author


<p> Literary and cultural analysis come together here as Caron casts brilliant light on the disastrously inadequate public response to the AIDS pandemic in France. . . . He shows how literature has supplied the communitarian voice that would otherwise have been lacking. --Ross Chambers, author of Facing It: AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author


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David Caron is associate professor of French at the University of Michigan.

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